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XPS Error Lights

tom03

Posted 20 May 2010 - 11:10 PM

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I have an Dell XPS 420 with a few issues at present, I have tried a few things (diagnostic testing with no issues picked up etc) to fix but cannot seem to get ahead. Diagnostic lights are on 1,2,3 and a error message of failed to detect 1 or more ATA drives during POST.
Anyone got any suggestions or ideas on fixing up
Cheers
Tom

tom03

Posted 04 June 2010 - 05:36 AM

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Thanks for the advice, tried a couple (ribbon, resetting) with little luck.
Ended up turning of drives (all but necessary) in BIOS and got back to almost normal operations (eg: started up to windows & internet access etc).
Secondary drive seems to be issue, reset BIOS to accept drive and noticed beeping noise (1 per second) coming from drive particular drive...thoughts?
Is the drive salavagable as it has all my data on it?
cheers
tom